I feel the same. However what I've noticed over the years is that my ability to deal with my worst bouts without breaking too much as a human has improved a lot.

Now, I can stabilize myself at feeling empty or apathic where as before I was spiraling into anxious intrusive thoughts.

I got better at recognizing when I was sinking and applying mechanisms that help me not sink too much until I get back to baseline.

I also now better understand which situations actually fuck me up when I'm down in the hole and try to avoid them as much as I can.

In a way it does get better without actually getting better as I understood it(meaning how I thought my recovery would go) when I first became conscious of being depressed.

Fuck animal exploitation, be it for profit or not.

So nice! Thanks, can't wait to listen to it!

I’m not too versed on the subject on lesser-evil voting and the arguments against. Anyone willing to educate me and share resources about it please?

Disclaimer: I’m not american so don’t try to persuade me to vote or not vote in this election as I’m tired of having to explain to people that not everyone on the internet is from the USA.

Lack of education truly is fascism's and capitalism's greatest ally

Apart from the fact she’s probably trying to dogwhistle here, I’m pretty confident she has no trouble eating animals she doesn’t consider pets. Would she then apply the same logic to herself? I’m calling on the Home Secretary of UK to look into this, if she’s eating dead animal bodies or secretions what else is she capable of?

Please add a CW for dead animal body parts as per hexbear CoC.

Anyway, this picture is a clear exemple of Animalization of the bodies of oppressed people. The Ko sisters have written a lot on this subject when presenting what they term as black veganism and how speciesm can be also used on oppressed groups.

Thanks its clearer now.

Not sure if what he posted makes no sense or if that's because English is not my first language, but I cannot make sense of what he tried to say.

Could someone please explain it to me in simpler terms?

Oh yeah I completely agree. As I've said, Dems position on fracking is still catastrophically bad.

If you look at the video in its entirety he spent the interview basically saying "we might vocally support bad things but republicans exist so...." by saying "the other side was talking about eating cats and dogs so why are we talking about fracking" and the short video @Parzivus@hexbear.net posted is basically the end on the interview and him just saying that when pressed by NBC about why Harris and him changed sides on the issue.

Still a massive shithead but not as incoherent as I first thought when I saw the first video.

source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/09/22/fetterman_ignores_question_about_changing_position_on_fracking_look_theyre_eating_the_dogs.html

Don’t forget the fascist SVP party getting fucked there as well, it has been rare in the past 25years that they lose.

They were literally saying the following on their websites a few days ago:

The SP and the unions want to destroy our tried-and-tested three-pillar model by integrating the 2nd pillar into the AHV in a kind of communist people's pension.

Please don’t threaten me with a good time lmao

She's polyamorous so... Maybe?

No worries I did not feel attacked. I certainly am aware of how drugs have been used in the past and especially how their criminalization was used to oppress people.

I still think that even in a socialist society people would use drugs because it's fun. I would hope that as you mention in such a society abuse would happen way less due to not needing it as a way to cope with our shitty lives. Criminalization imho would not solve an issue but create stigma around using while not actually stopping people from using them.

I think forbidding use usually creates more dangerous way of people using them. (e.g. Consuming more at once and using drugs that might be cut with shit)

I have no idea what's China policy on drugs, are users thrown in jail like in most countries ? I don't think that because something was used by a colonialist state to fuck up a population it should be banned (even though I can empathize with the trauma around it). I feel it's like currently LGBT rights are pink washed by neo colonialist states to try to justify why they do fucked up things in some countries does not justify these countries then oppressing LGBT communities to get back at the colons(even worse when most of the anti LGBT laws were initially created by these same colons in the past centuries).

What is China's position on alcohol and cigarettes? These are usually example of drugs that are legal and not stigmatized (despite having a high risk of abuse)

I unfortunately do not have have a lot of questions about trains, it's my main way of transportation and has been during most of my life. I also have a friend who happens to be obsessed by trains and their miniature models and she usually gives me a lecture about trains once a month lmao

Ooh I ltke Angela Davis work. Her veganism and prison abolitionist stances have left a deep mark on me.

Interesting topic, I have to say that I have not thought a lot about it even though I'm a sentientist vegan. I think the fact that cats usually kill a lot of other sentient animals when outdoors is a problem for me. I would much prefer people not to continue breeding animals and keep aeimals just for their own pleasure as I think it causes a lot of issues.

I would much prefer cats to be kept indoor and fed a well formulated and supplemented plant based diet as from my research I did not see any indication it cannot be done. I would also prefer cats to be sterilized as I think it's one of the less cruel way to prevent the population from exploding due to the facts we breed them with no care for them or the other non human animals.

However I have no idea whether it is a problem for cats to be kept indoor their entire lives, do you have resources on this subject?

I'm pro legalization of drugs as I think prohibition does not help society and war on drugs is a failure which worsen risks associated with drugs consumption, production and sale.

I would like drugs to be sold and controlled by the state to ensure sufficient quality control as well as having comprehensive harm reductions methods and/or courses available to the population and more specifically visible in sale points.

Help to deal with addiction in persons that are considering their addiction a problem should be freely available.

I would also love for the sigmats about consumption to disappear .

These are invaluable tips! Thank you very much!

Gotcha, indigenous from North America. That looks really interesting, especially as a non US resident! I don’t know a whole lot about movements there!